Hi, I have an interesting observation that I thought might be interesting to the tool-chain team.
I was trying to build u-boot in Thumb2 for OMAP4. Everything was fine until I added some patches recently. One of these patches introduced an API (let's say foo()) that has a weakly linked alias(let's say __foo()) and a strongly linked implementation(the real foo()) in an assembly file. Although I give -mthumb and -mthumb-interwork for all the files, apparently GCC generates ARM code for assembly files. In the final image foobar() calls foo() using a BL. Since foobar() is in Thumb and foo() in ARM, it ends up crashing. Looks like foobar() assumed foo() to be Thumb because __foo() is Thumb. Also I see that 'objdump -S' aborts when it tries to parse foo(). I could workaround this problem by having foo() also in a C file that in turn calls into the assembly file. I tried Linaro GCC 4.5.2 and Codesourcery Lite GCC 4.4.1. Both seem to have the issue. Isn't this an issue with GCC or am I missing something? -Aneesh _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
